Word: walnuts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pound, Pound, POUND." Twice married but childless, fatherly Dean Pound has helped many a student through social and financial troubles. Roscoe Pound's day begins at 6:30 a. m., ends at midnight. Often he spends most of it inside his walnut horseshoe desk which is lined with some 300 books. When he wants one he spins around in his swivel chair, gets it at first grasp, buries his nose in it to overcome extreme myopia. When callers come he pushes up his eyeshade, chuckles merrily. The Harvard Lampoon once ran a picture of a pansy whose petals resembled...
This, the eighth day of the auction, marked the last and saddest chapter in the Mauretania's career. Her furniture and paneling of oak, mahogany and walnut, in French, Italian and 18th Century English styles, were disposed of. Now up for sale were such sentimental souvenirs as lifeboats, lifebelts, steering wheel and her name itself. Lifeboats brought $31 to $101 each, the steering wheel $150. The scramble for lifebelts bearing the ship's name puffed the price to $42 each. The siren, which blared the Mauretania's way into port for 22 years as speed champion...
...socialite young woman to become a good sculptor is definitely news. Such news broke last week when Mrs. Wynne Byard Taylor gave her first one-man show at the Georgette Passedoit Gallery. Critics who had never heard of her before were charmed by a number of figures in mahogany, walnut, bronze, pottery, modeled with sure fingers and considerable masculine purpose. In particular they inspected approvingly a leering bronze faun with the shoulders and back muscles of Sculptor Taylor's brother...
...Architect John Russell Pope, has on its façade an ornate icing of Renaissance cornices, spandrels, balustrades. Inside, however, it is as efficient a library building as exists in the country. Completely air conditioned, there are no windows below the third floor. Besides the stacks, there is a walnut-paneled reading room, a smaller study for advanced students, a photographic studio, a photostat room, offices, cafeteria for the staff...
...power, and an improved chassis frame. The bodies have been made more spacious, and all closed models have flat floors in the rear compartment, eliminating the ridge which formerly existed. Redesigned dials, behind concave glass that eliminates reflection and promotes visibility, are mounted in an improved instrument board with walnut-grained panels. The new engine is of the same displacement as the 1934 Master models, but incorporates new improvements. The brakes have been made more powerful to match the gain in engine power...